Cristina Maghini
Papers
11
Total Citations
314
H-Index
7
About
Cristina Maghini is a pediatric rehabilitation researcher whose work sits at the intersection of clinical outcome measurement and technology-driven therapies for children with neurological conditions, particularly cerebral palsy (CP) and acquired brain injury (ABI). Her research has made significant strides in establishing rigorous standards for evaluating motor recovery, most notably through her highly cited 2020 study (90 citations) defining the Minimum Clinically Important Difference for the 6-Minute Walking Test and the Gross Motor Function Measure — tools now central to pediatric rehabilitation assessments worldwide. Maghini has been a leading voice in advancing robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) for pediatric populations, examining how dosage, frequency, and duration influence outcomes across large clinical cohorts, with multiple studies accumulating nearly 100 citations combined. Her 2017 work introducing an immersive virtual reality platform (71 citations) demonstrated how engagement-focused technologies can meaningfully support walking recovery in young patients. She has also extended her focus to upper limb robotic rehabilitation, developing novel quantitative performance metrics that help clinicians extract actionable data from robotic systems. Across more than a decade of research, Maghini has helped transform pediatric neurorehabilitation from largely qualitative practice into an evidence-based, technology-enhanced discipline.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7Quantitative Evaluation of Performance during Robot-assisted Treatment13 citations · 2015
- 8
- 9
- 10